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Abbott

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Registered: 2017-10-07

Posts: 18

Checked out empty branch with etckeeper

Hi,

I was attempting to set up etckeeper with sudo and ironically nuked my entire /etc in the process. I no longer have /etc/passwd, so when I try to su, I get "su: user root does not exist or the user entry does not contain all the required fields." I also can't sudo: "sudo: you do not exist in the passwd database". Is there a way to repair my server as an unprivileged user? The server is an 8 hour drive away, so I would ideally like to do it remotely.

Thank you

Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 634

Re: Checked out empty branch with etckeeper

I would think that some of it would have to look something like this...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … x_from_SSH

Granted, there would have to be someone there to type some things and maybe reboot but it would get you in as root with network access.